Abstract: The records of the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) contain administrative files, litigation files, and special
program and subject files, dating from the founding of the organization in 1966 through circa 2000. Materials in the collection
document CRLA's ongoing work to provide legal aid to farmworkers and the rural poor in California.

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Creator:
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation

Creator:
California Rural Legal Assistance Incorporated.

Restrictions

A small amount of material with privacy and confidentiality issues has been closed for 75 years from the date the material
was created. Within this guide, this material will be marked with a Restricted Material note at the file level, specifying
the extent of the closure period.

Access to Collection

The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.

Scope and Contents

The records of the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) contain administrative files, litigation files, and special
program and subject files, dating from the founding of the organization in 1966 through circa 2000. Material in the collection
documents CRLA's ongoing work to provide legal aid to farmworkers and the rural poor in California and highlights particular
priority areas where advocacy efforts were focused, including employment, education, immigration, health and environmental
safety. Also included in the collection are numerous files related to CRLA's development and survival as an organization.
The history of its funding and re-funding by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and the Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
is particularly well documented. The majority of material within the collection originated from CRLA's central administrative
office in San Francisco, although some records from regional branch offices are present as well.

The California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. records were processed under a grant from the Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR).

Acquisition Information

This collection was given by the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. to Stanford University, Special Collections in 1995,
2005, 2011, and 2013 (accessions 1995-085, 2005-077, 2011-059, 2011-160, and 2013-009). Materials from accessions 1995-085,
2005-077, 2011-059, and 2011-160 were processed between March 2011 and February 2013 and are listed in this finding aid.

Publication Rights

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.

Arrangement and Description

The collection is organized into nine record groups:

Record Group 1. Board of Directors

Record Group 2. Directors

Record Group 3. Administrative and Financial Files

Record Group 4. Communication and Development Files

Record Group 5. Advocacy

Record Group 6. Program Files

Record Group 7. Audiovisual Material

Record Group 8. Government Relations

Record Group 9. Born-Digital Material

Materials within an individual record group, or within a series or subseries of an individual record group, have been arranged
alphabetically by box title. Box titles and subtitles may include a general description (i.e. financial files), a format term
(i.e. pleadings) a subject term (i.e. mechanization), or the name of a specific legal case or individual person. Legal cases
are alphabetized by the name of the primary plaintiff or defendant. As a second level of arrangement, some boxes have been
organized chronologically (i.e. meeting files and similar types of material have been arranged chronologically when possible
and relevant).

The majority of the collection has been described at the box level. Descriptions are meant to give researchers an overall
sense of what will be found in the entire box but are not exhaustive and do not list the contents of every folder.

Historical Note

Founded in 1966 through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA)
was the first federally-funded rural legal services program as well as the first such statewide program. CRLA provides legal
services to farmworkers, particularly migrant farmworkers, and the rural poor in California. James D. Lorenz Jr. was the founding
director of CRLA and organizers César Chávez, Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong were all members of its founding Board. There
have now been five other directors: Cruz Reynoso, Martin R. Glick, Richard Baca, Alberto Saldamando, and the current director,
José R. Padilla, whose tenure began in 1984.

As one of the original "War on Poverty" programs, CRLA was nationally renowned for pursuing high-impact class actions that
benefitted millions of low-income people in California and nationally until the 1996 "Gingrich Congress" prohibited federally-funded
legal services from participating in class-action litigation. Today, CRLA continues to assist individual clients and communities
through alternative forms of litigation, remaining steadfastly committed to advocating for the rural poor as a class in order
to address the root causes of poverty. To achieve this goal, CRLA has developed an effective organizational structure, with
a central administrative office in San Francisco as well as numerous regional branch offices located near rural communities
within California. Regional offices allow CRLA to make its services available to clients where they live, while the central
office is able to direct priorities for the organization as a whole.

CRLA has traditionally focused its advocacy efforts around a set of strategic priority areas, including employment, housing,
education, immigration, civil rights, health, and environmental safety. The organization has achieved legal success in all
these areas. For example, an early CRLA advocacy effort led by Ralph S. Abascal—who joined CRLA as a staff attorney in 1968
and later became CRLA General Counsel for over twenty years—resulted in the eventual banning of DDT and other pesticides in
the early 1970s. Other examples of successful litigation include Carmona v. Division of Industrial Safety (1975), a case that
CRLA argued in the California Supreme Court and that led to the banning of
EI Corito, the crippling short-handled hoe.

Other notable CRLA cases include Diana v. Board of Education (1970), in which CRLA challenged the practice of placing non-native
English speakers into classes for the mentally disabled. CRLA was also instrumental in the passing of the Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural
Act of 1976, and enhanced the power of this Act in the case of Comite De Padres de Familia v. Riles (1985), which further
defined the state's responsibility for supervising bilingual education programs. CRLA also achieved a victory for undocumented
immigrants by securing the addition of the Special Agricultural Worker provision to the Immigration Reform and Control Act
(IRCA). The provision allowed a million undocumented workers to become legalized. CRLA went on to litigate two of three "late
amnesty cases" filed in the federal courts in California against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for its
misadministration of IRCA: Catholic Social Services (CCS) v. Meese (1986) and Zambrano v. INS (1988). During litigation that
spanned over twenty years, the CCS case was argued at all levels of the federal courts including before the U.S. Supreme Court.

CRLA's priorities are revisited at least once every five years in the form of Statewide Priorities Conferences, and are also
addressed through the formation of specific task forces aimed at identifying, understanding, and raising awareness about issues
affecting the organization’s rural clients. Additional changes CRLA has undergone include the establishment of a Migrant Unit,
in order to more effectively address issues faced by migrant farmworkers. Over the years, CRLA has worked hard to remain independent
and true to its original mission, which has included collaboration with other legal services groups, such as the Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), through activities such as co-counseling and the joint filing of amici briefs.

Despite being consistently praised by its clients and recognized by organizations such as the American Bar Association for
providing high-quality legal services CRLA has been particularly subject to politically motivated efforts to defund the organization
and has been forced to struggle for its survival. The 1970 veto by then Governor Ronald Reagan of CRLA's federal, OEO funding
is perhaps the most notable example of this type of attack.

CRLA's relations with Reagan had been tense ever since CRLA litigation successfully blocked his attempts to cut California's
welfare programs in 1967. Following these defeats in court, Reagan appointed Lewis K. Uhler, a former member of the John Birch
Society as director of the State's OEO, an appointment that seemed clearly aimed at undermining CRLA. Uhler compiled and submitted
to Reagan a report that listed 127 alleged incidents of CRLA misconduct, ranging from misuse of OEO funds to intentionally
inciting prison riots. The report failed to acknowledge any of CRLA's significant accomplishments. On December 26, 1970, Regan
vetoed the OEO $1.8 million grant for CRLA's 1971 refunding.

Although Reagan's veto was no surprise, the outrageous and libelous allegations contained in the Uhler Report prompted CRLA
and its supporters to launch an ambitious campaign to save the organization. CRLA demanded an investigation into the Uhler
charges and submitted its own report that refuted each incident cited in the Report. The Nixon administration appointed a
commission consisting of the Chief Justices of three state Supreme Courts (all of them Republicans) to investigate. This commission
conducted hearings throughout California (in which Uhler himself refused to appear or participate) and ultimately concluded
that all the charges against CRLA were false.

The Uhler Report controversy was not only a formative moment in CRLA's history but by exposing the vulnerability of legal
services to political attacks, led to the bi-partisan creation of the federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC) with the goal
of reducing state and local interference under the OEO funding scheme. This controversy and its implications have been examined
in numerous articles and studies, including the 1973 article published in The
Hastings Law Journal by legal scholars Jerome B. Falk and Stuart R. Pollak,
Political Interference with Publicly Funded Lawyers: The CRLA Controversy and The Future of Legal Services. The controversy is also treated in Michael Bennett and Cruz Reynoso's 1972 article in the
UCLA Chicano-Latino Law Review,
California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA): Survival of a Poverty Law Practice.

Reagan's gubernatorial experience with CRLA led him throughout his subsequent Presidency to consistently seek the elimination
of LSC and all federally-funded legal services. His efforts were continually blocked in Congress. Notwithstanding his inability
to eliminate LSC, Reagan used his presidential power to appoint LSC members dedicated to eliminating the programs through
politically-motivated investigations that interfered with program operations and often resulted in decreased funding. A continuing,
decades-long series of audits, investigations and extraordinary conditions imposed on funding by LSC and/or its Office of
Inspector General, have consumed thousands of hours of CRLA staff time and pro-bono efforts from supporting members of the
Bar. In 1981, to help offset program cuts due to decreases in funding, CRLA and its supporters created the CRLA Foundation
(CRLAF). The Foundation receives no federal funding, and is therefore able to undertake significant work that CRLA cannot
because of federal restrictions on LSC-funded organizations.

Despite the many challenges CRLA has faced, the organization has shown a remarkable resilience throughout its nearly fifty
years of operation. CRLA continues its unique mission, providing legal representation and other assistance to farmworkers
and the rural poor in California, and has evolved into one of the most effective advocacy programs in the United States.

This record group contains agendas and minutes from the meetings of CRLA's Board of Directors/ Trustees. It also contains
Board member training and orientation materials, committee and conference material, bylaws, rosters, and correspondence related
to the Board’s activities. In addition to offering insight into the structural workings of CRLA as an organization, material
in this record group provides a concise overview of CRLA's high-level concerns, priorities, and activities.

This record group contains administrative and subject files related to the work of CRLA's Executive Directors, General Counsel
(
Ralph S. Abascal), and Litigation Directors.

Series 1. Executive Directors1966-1990

Scope and Contents

This series contains papers belonging to CRLA's six Executive Directors and includes correspondence, memos, meeting and committee
material, subject files, and administrative records. Collection material related to the work of the directors can be found
throughout the collection, as the scope of their activities touches upon all areas of the organization’s operations. The files
in this series, however, were specifically labeled as belonging to one of the directors by CRLA staff and have therefore been
arranged separately.

The series has been divided into a subseries for each director:

Subseries 1. James D. Lorenz, Jr., 1966-1969

Subseries 2. Cruz Reynoso, 1969-1972

Subseries 3. Martin R. Glick, 1972-1974

Subseries 4. Richard Baca 1974-1976

Subseries 5. Alberto Saldamando, 1976-1984

Subseries 6. José R. Padilla, 1984-

Note: Date ranges of these subseries reflect the period of each director’s tenure, although the subseries may contain some records
from an earlier or later date.

Ralph S. Abascal served as General Counsel to CRLA for over twenty years. This series contains material that was specifically
labeled as belonging to Abascal or related to his work. It includes correspondence, notes, and working files on topics such
as immigration, pesticides, and mechanization, as well as pleadings from cases related to these topics. Also included are
typescripts, news clippings, and other publications related to Abascal's work, and his files related to LSC refunding and
CRLA survival issues.

Agricultural issues; includes notes, correspondence, and other information on California Agrarian Action Project (CAAP) v.
UC Regents; also correspondence, notes, and a government report on pesticide use (16 folders)
1980-1983, 1985

Box 274

Biographical papers; includes periodical features, as well as publications related to the perception of lawyers and the law
(4 folders)
1987-1991

Carton 270

Environmental issues; includes documents from his tenure at Hastings as well as various conferences, and legal topics such
as: zoning and minorities, national environmental policies issues, pollution, agricultural workers health and safety issues,
women and children environmental risks, and toxic dumping; file types include pleadings, notes, trial excerpts, publications,
and correspondence (17 folders)
circa 1990-1995

LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes mostly correspondence regarding grant funding between CRLA and: LSC,
Center for Law and Social Policy, and other legal agencies; also includes LSC monitoring report (1986), LSC's request for
production of documents, and the Project Advisory Group's "Washington Reports" (16 folders)
1976, circa 1980-1990

Carton 290

LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes pleadings from cases files against LSC, reports, publications, and
opinions regarding LSC, legislative research regarding grant funding, and a report by the Comptroller General (16 folders)
circa 1977-1990

Carton 273

LSC (Legal Services Corporation) working files; includes Martin Holt's report on migrant workers' distribution, their research,
and various responses to the 1987 report, as well as LSC's 1990 legislative battles, LSC Reauthorization Act, which includes
correspondence, senate bill critiques, memos, clippings, and a draft monitoring report from 1985 (20 folders)
circa 1985-1995

This series contains meeting material, conference and training material, administrative files, correspondence, and notes relating
to the general function of the litigation directors, directing attorneys, and directing legal secretaries. Also included are
records related to specific ligation directors, such as Richard Gonzales and Richard Pearl. Material related to the work of
other directing attorneys, especially if it includes extensive case files can also be found in Record Group 5, Series 2. Litigation.

This record group contains correspondence, memos, reports, budget information, meeting material, program evaluations, office
manuals, and miscellaneous office files relating to the daily administrative and financial operations of CRLA's central office,
as well as some of the regional branch offices. Other materials of interest include contracts and other records related to
community and legal workers unions, particularly the United Legal Workers of California (ULWC). Also included are files compiled
by Barbara Rasmussen, Special Assistant to the Executive Director and later Community Relations Coordinator.

Administrative records; includes manuals, contact lists, correspondence, notes, and memos related to CRLA's work with local
legal aid societies, responsibilities of the office administrator and assistant, and the day-to-day workings of the central
CRLA office (16 folders)
1973-1977

Administrative and financial records; includes memos, correspondence, training material, and manuals relating to the daily
functions of the CRLA central office; topics include the budget, work study programs, and eathquake safety (20 folders)
1982-1988

Chronological office files; includes memos, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLA
central office (42 folders)
1981-1984

Box 154

Chronological office files; includes memos, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLA
central office, as well as correspondence from administrators and accountants (8 folders)
1981, 1984-85

United Legal Workers of California (ULWC) and California Community Workers Union negotiations; includes memoranda, correspondence,
notes, and contracts, as well as news clippings and other material related to the ULWC strike in 1978 (17 folders)
1977-78, 1980, 1982-83

This record group contains correspondence, memos, press releases, news clippings, reports, articles and other materials related
to CRLA's efforts to communicate their goals and accomplishments to the general public, and to monitor the public’s perception
of CRLA. It also includes grant applications, fund-raising files, and outreach event information, documenting CRLA's strategies
for securing support for the organization. Of particular interest are the many letters of support for CRLA sent in response
to Reagan's 1970 veto of CRLA funding. This series also contains material related to the establishment of the California Rural
Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) and its effort to secure funding for CRLA activities outside the federal government.

CRLA Foundation (CRLAF); includes memoranda, correspondence, and contracts related to the daily functions of the CRLAF; also
includes records related to the Rural Justice Foundation, a precursor to the CRLAF (26 folders)
1978-1980, 1986, 1991

Box 238

CRLA Foundation (CRLAF); includes memoranda, correspondence, and other material related to the daily functions of the CRLAF
(3 folders)
1983-84

Grant materials; includes proposals, correspondence, budgets, reports, and other material related to grants from foundations
such as the Episcopal Coalition for Human Needs, the Poverello Fund, and the Walter S. Johnson Foundation (66 folders)
1982-1989

Box 138

Grant materials; includes proposals, correspondence, budgets, reports, and other material related to grants from foundations
such as the MacArthur Foundation and National Rural Fellows (36 folders)
1982-1989

Publications; includes drafts and offprints of “California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA): Survival of a Poverty Law Practice”
by Michael Bennett and Cruz Reynoso, as well as related correspondence; offprint of
Political Interference with Publicly Funded Lawyers: The CRLA Controversy and the Future of Legal Services" by Jerome B. Falk, Jr. and Stuart R. Pollak; CRLA publication
Rural California: Hope Amidst Poverty; and publications from other organizations that relate to CRLA work (8 folders).
1971-1973

Carton 170, Folders 6-9

Publications; includes articles written by CRLA staff and discussion about a CRLA newsletter1981, 1985-86

This record group contains material related to CRLA's legal, community, and policy advocacy work. CRLA legal staff not only
represented clients in court, but also advocated before state commissions such as the utilities board to institute policies
that would aid the poor and those for whom English was not their first language. The record group is divided into three series.
The first series contains working files from CRLA attorneys Stephen Rosenbaum and Tony White. The Legislation series contains
drafts and copies of California Senate and Assembly Bills relevant to CRLA priority areas, as well as related correspondence
and notes. The Litigation Series contains pleadings, research and discovery files, case notes, memos, and correspondence from
legal cases, either argued by CRLA attorneys or of interest to CRLA. Sample cases include California Agrarian Action Project
(CAAP) v. University of California Regents, Furukawa Farms v. CRLA, and United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization
Services (INS).

Stephen Rosenbaum, working files on DeHaro v. City of St. Helena (Calif.), and alienage as it relates to labor issues; record
types include research documents, correspondence, pleadings, and clippings (10 folders)
circa 1980-1990

Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged A-C; topics include access to public records research through CHAIN (California
housing action and information network) documents; record types include clippings, memos and correspondence, pleadings, and
research (45 folders)
circa 1980-1995

Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged and includes topics that start with the letter H; topics mostly include
housing issues and homelessness; also includes public health and handicapped issues research; record types include inter-office
memos, pleadings, clippings, correspondence, and research (51folders)
circa 1985-1994

Tony White, working files, alphabetically arranged and includes topics that start with the letter P; topics mostly include
public housing; record types include pleadings, correspondence, research documents, and clippings (19 folders)
circa 1981-1991

ACR 74; correspondence and notes concerning legislation that required a comprehensive study to determine the language needs
of non-English speaking citizens at every step of the judicial process
1973-1975

Mixed legislation; includes Assembly Bills from the 1975-1976 session, AB 1-899, a large portion of records dealing with the
right to vote, labor commissioners' enforcement of labor laws, and employer practices regarding arrest records (30 folders)
1975-1976

CRLA v. Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Barbara; includes exhibits in support of petition, petition for
writ of mandate, application for leave to file amicus curiae brief in support of petition (4 folders)
1992

Box 338

CRLA v. Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Barbara; includes Court of Appeals pleadings (5 folders)1992-1994

Box 312

Castro v. California; pleadings (4 folders)circa 1968-1969

Carton 186

Catholic Social Services (CSS) v. Meese (Barr), depositions; also includes exhibits used during the depositions and reporters'
transcripts of judge's decision (23 folders)
c. 1987-1992

Box 297

Committee for Full Employment (CFE) v. Blumenthal, Secretary of Treasury; includes pleadings, opening brief, working file,
clippings, as well as, notes, oral arguments, and research on revenue sharing (17 folders)
c. 1977

Box 227

Education litgation: bilingual regulations and financing; including Mexican-American Council on Education v. Board of Education
for United School District No. 457, Larry P. v. Riles, Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent od Schools v. State
of California; includes preliminary statements, answers, orders, complaints, reports, news articles, correspondence (19 folders)
1978-1985

International Human Rights files; includes petitions to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Organization of
American States (OAR) and UN High Commissioner, human rights files involving Amnesty International, International Human Rights
Law Group (IHRLG), National Council of Churches, Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, International Human Rights
Bill/Treaty; Central Valley Equal Rights Coucil (CVERC) v US including related research and news articles relating to immigrant
drowning deaths, also includes exhibits, investigation reports, press releases (14 folders)
1979-1992

Lopez v. Davidian, correspondence; also includes research on related cases, research notes, and miscellaneous related records
such as questionnaires for potential witnesses, and press clippings (9 folders)
circa 1988-1994

Carton 182

Lopez v. Davidian, pleadings; also includes extra copies of orders, briefs, and complaints as well as exhibits used at trialcirca 1988-1994

Private Law Corporations; includes correspondence and billing information related to CRLA's contracts with private law firms
to handle pro bono cases
1982-1987

Carton 149

PT&T case; includes proceedings related to applications brought by The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company before the
Public Utilities Commission of the State of California to increase rates, and investigations by the Commission into fees charged
by telephone companies in California (12 folders)
1981, 1983

Stanislaus County Bar Association v. CRLA; includes correspondence, petitions, evidence, and other materials related to the
Stanislaus County Bar Association's efforts to keep CRLA from practicing law in California (6 folders)
1966-1968

United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), exhibits; includes plaintiffs' first, second,
third, and fourth partial sets of exhibits, various defendants' exhibits, and other exhibits presented during the proceedings
as well as subpoenas and SAW records (10 folders)

Box 213

United Farm Workers (UFW) v. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), research and publicity files; also includes miscellaneous
data reports and notes on the case (5 folders)

Utility company employment practices and bilingual services; includes proceedings related to applications brought before the
Public Utilities Commission of the State of California concerning employment discrimination by telephone companies, and the
need to require telephone companies to provide bilingual services (4 folders)
1981-1984

Box 353

Western Land Office Inc. v. Cervantes and Hernandez v. Brock; includes proceedings, notes, correspondence, and other materials
(7 folders)

This record group contains correspondence, memos, reports, subject files, and other material related to CRLA programs, units
(i.e. migrant units), and task forces, as well as its annual Priorities Conferences and related programs and meetings. Task
force topics include migrant labor, immigration, jobs, housing, education, land reclamation, and prisons, among others. This
series also includes material related to CRLA's involvement with the Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC). Also included
are attorney and staff training and orientation files.

Series 1. Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC)

Carton 62

Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC); includes correspondence, memos, contact lists, dockets, and statistics relating
to CLSC; topics include the defunding of CLSC because of cuts to CLRA's funding in the late 1970s (21 folders)
1974-1978

Carton 171

Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC); includes correspondence and memos related to the day-to-day running of the CLSC,
as well as the 1977 Legal Services Corporation evaluation of the program (27 folders)
1975-1977

Box 172

Cooperative Legal Services Center (CLSC); includes memos to offices, material for back up centers, and dockets (6 folders)1972-1977

Task forces; includes memos, correspondence, reports, and other material on the Senior Citizens Law Program, the Food Law
Center, and the Housing task force, as well as general information on CRLA task forces (9 folders)
1974-1977

Task forces and Priorities Conferences; includes memos, correspondence, agendas, and other material relating to priorities
conferences in the 1970s and early 1980s as well as the farm labor and immigration task forces (10 folders)
1976-1979, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990-1991

Box 267

Task forces and Priorities Conferences; includes correspondence, memos, notes, reports, and other material relating to priorities
conferences in the late 1970s and early 1980s, migrant units, and the labor task force (12 folders)
1979-1980, 1982, 1987

Series 3. Sacramento Migrant Unit

Carton 286

Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes correspondence, memos, notes, and other materials relating to topics such as education,
farm labor, rural health, pesticides, housing, industrial relations, and vacancies on the University of California Board of
Regents (34 folders)
1978-1981

Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes correspondence, memos, and other material relating to litigation, lobbying, conferences,
and organizations including the Commission on the Status of Women, La Cooperativa, and La Raza Legal Alliance (20 folders)
1978-1981

Sacramento Migrant Unit; includes reports, notes, correspondence, memos, newsletters and other materials on topics relating
to migrant farm workers from organizations such as the General Accounting Office, the National Immigration Law Center, and
the California Employment Development Department
1985-1995

San Diego project; materials relating to the opening of a migrant services office in the San Diego area and reallocating resources
from the Salinas office; includes memos, correspondence, reports, clippings
circa 1987-1989

Record Group 7. Audiovisual materialcirca 1978-1993

Scope and Contents

This record group contains video tapes and audio tapes of programs featuring CRLA staff, such as hearings and conference recordings,
as well as telecasts on topics of interest to CRLA.

Arrangement

Some of the material in this record group was removed from other record groups. Separated material notes, which describe the
original location of the item, have been added when relevant. Documentation that accompanied these items has also been retained
in this record group.

Videotapes (18) of news coverage on issues of concern to CRLA, such as mechanization and immigration1978-1981

Carton 123

Videotapes (14) of news coverage on issues of concern to CRLA, including farm mechanization and pesticides; also La Voz del
Pueblo, a public service announcement produced by CRLA in English and Spanish, and two folders of documentation
1978-1980, 1984

This record group contains memos, correspondence, reports, news clippings, and statistics concerning CRLA's relationships
with various federal, state, and local government agencies. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), later the Legal Services
Corporation (LSC), is CRLA's main source of funding and this relationship is well documented in this record group, which includes
extensive material related to LSC monitoring and audits of CRLA. Ronald Reagan's investigation of CRLA activities and his
efforts to defund CRLA, particularly his 1970 veto, are also well documented.

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); includes manuals and guidelines relating to the OEO's Community Action Program (CAP),
grant applications and instructions, newsclippings, and material on Judicare and CRLA's Senior Citizens Project (22 folders)
1965, 1967-71

Carton 157

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes an application for refunding to the OEO
and material relating to LSC monitoring visits in 1985 and 1987 (44 folders)
1971, 1985, 1987

Box 90

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes correspondence, memos, lists, notes, and
other materials relating to the debate over OEO's defunding and the legislative defeat of the LSC. (12 folders)
1973-1974

Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes correspondence, memos, budgets and other materials documenting CRLA's relationship
with the LSC; topics include the Project Advisory Group and its Funding Criteria Committee (5 folders)
1975-1977

Legal Services Corporation (LSC); includes regulations from the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974 and the Amended Act
of 1977, analysis and correspondence relavant to regulations, also includes ethical duties under the regulations, relavant
case summaries (19 folders)
1976-1990

Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes memos, correspondence, financial records, and other material related
to the 1985 LSC monitoring visit and CRLA's reaction to the report that followed (36 folders)
1985

Carton 113

Legal Services Corporation (LSC) monitoring; includes memos, correspondence, financial records, and other material related
to the 1985 LSC monitoring visit and CRLA's reaction to the report that followed (14 folders)
1985

Reagan veto; includes correspondence, news clippings, memoranda, and reports related to CRLA's fight against Reagan's attempt
to veto funding for the CRLA; includes a copy of the Uhler Report (32 folders)
1970-1971

Reagan veto; includes news clippings, reports, a support letters index, and other material related to Reagan's veto of funding
for CRLA (8 folders)
1971-1972

Series 3. Miscellaneous Government Relations

Box 114

Madera letter; includes correspondence, notes, memos, and news clippings related to accusations made by the Board of Supervisors
in Madera County that CRLA pursued cases to increase their own publicity and stir up controversy (15 folders)
1981

Carton 204, Folders 18-22

Madera letter; includes exhibits gathered by CRLA in response to complaints lodged by the city of Madera (5 folders)1980-1983

Relations with local organizations and government; includes correspondence and memos on CRLA involvement with CETA and the
City of San Francisco's Community Services Administration
1977-78, 1981

Carton 268, Folders 9-32

Relations with national organizations and government; includes correspondence and memoranda on CRLA involvements with the
Coalition of Legal Services, congressional inquiries in Gilroy, Modesto, and Hollister, Gramm-Rudman Legislation, Congressmen
Leon Panetta and Robert Kastenmeier, Legal Services Corporation, the Reagan veto, the San Diego Project, and Save Legal Services
1966-1971, 1975, 1977, 1981-83, 1985-89

Box 289

Relations with state and national organizations; includes correspondence, memos, and other materials on CLRA involvements
with the National Economic and Law Center, the California Department of Health, the California Rural Health Policy Council,
and other organizations (7 folders)
1995-2000

Carton 268, Folders 3-8

Relations with state organizations and government; includes correspondence and memos on CRLA involvement with the California
Fair Political Practices Commission, Californians of Asian Ancestry, National Clients Council Region VIII, and the Western
Center on Law and Poverty
1977-1984

Carton 74

State Bar of California Trust Fund/IOLTA applications; includes notes, memos, correspondence, and application materials for
IOLTA funds from the State Bar of California (11 folders)
1984-1988

Box 205, Folders 4-9

U.S. Congress; includes correspondence, memos, and other materials related to CRLA's interactions with members of the United
States Congress, especially Leon Panetta, concerning allegations of the CRLA's misuse of funds (6 folders)
1988-1990

Disk images of the computer media were created using FTK Imager and stored in a standalone personal computer. After detecting
and cleaning any computer viruses using Sophos Anti-Virus software, the cleaned files were transferred to a secured server
with regular backup schedule. All files will be ingested into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR; a dark digital archive)
for long term preservation.

Access

Files on disks in folders 1 and 2 are unreadable and are not available. Files on disks in folders 3 and 4 have been printed
out and are available as hard copies in the folders.

Scope and Contents

This series consists of documents created and/or stored on 5.25" floppy disks by CRLA.

Arrangement

The majority of material in this record group was removed from other record groups. Separated material notes, which describe
the original location of the item, have been added when relevant.